Weather-strip



Fr es.

LUGIUS PARMELE, OF MAGKINAIV, ILLINOIS.

WEATHER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,425, dated June 12,1883,

Application filed April 2, 1883. (No model.)- I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUcIUs PARMELE, of Mackinaw, in the county ofTazewell and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use fulImprovements in WVeathenStrips; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form apart of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is aperspective view of the lower part of a door provided with my improvedweather-strip. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the strip detached, and Fig. 3is a crossseetion of the same through line am in Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

My invention has relation to that class of weather-strips which areadapted to be used on doors for the purpose of preventing wind, rain,and snow from entering the house be tween the door and threshold; andit.consists in the improved construction of a weatherstrip of that classin the form of an expansible gutter provided with a discharge-spout atone end, as hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed.out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, A is the door, andB thejamb or casing ofthe same. 0 is a gutter, made of tin or sheet metal and bent to form abead or flange, D, which is adapted to engage the corresponding flange,D, of the adjacent gutter-section C. By in serting the part 0 into C atelescopic eXtensible gutter is formed, which may be extended to suitthe exact width of the door upon which it is contemplated to use it. Thegutter, hav

ing been adjusted to its proper length, is fastened near the lower endof the door by means of screws or nails E. A narrow strip of rubber, F,may be placed between the gutter and the door, and held in place by thefastenings E, the lower end of said rubber band extendconnection withthe drawings, the operation of my improved weather-strip will be readilyunderstood without requiring further explanation. By making the guttertelescopic or exp ansible in the manner described it may readily befitted to any door without need of cutting, while'rain or water beatenup into the gutter is discharged through the spout H on one side of thedoor. If desired, this spout may be curved, as shown in dotted lines, ormade with an elbow, so as to discharge the water around the corner ofthe door-easing.

Having thus described my invention, I el aim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States 1. The combination, with the door A,ofthe expansible weather-stri p, composed of the gutter G 0, closed atone end and provided with the overlapping flanges D D, and thedischarge- I spout H, substantially as and for the purpose shown anddescribed.

2. The weather-strip consisting of the gut ter-sections G 0, provided,respectively, with the flanges D D, and adapted to fit one an other, oneof the parts or sections being closed at one end, while the other isprovided with a discharge-spout, H, substantially as and for the purpose'shown and specified. a

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereuntoaffixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LUGIUS PARMELE.

Vitnesses:

W. M. WA'rsoiv, L. Y. Coon.

